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Use AI to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images. Create backgrounds quickly, or speed up your concept exploration so you can spend more time visualizing ideas.
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I just realised If Aliens with post singularity level tech exist it is likly they scan every atom of earth.

This would mean perfect FIVR would be possible as in actually living in a replica of different time periods of Earth.

Currently after the singularity I am excited to live in an exact replica of 2022 earth for example every atom in every simulated persons brain is exactly the same etc. Of course I want to then modify the perfect template of earth (mostly modifying myself) so I can live out various fantasies.
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Set and Meet Goals wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:01 am I just realised If Aliens with post singularity level tech exist it is likly they scan every atom of earth.

This would mean perfect FIVR would be possible as in actually living in a replica of different time periods of Earth.

Currently after the singularity I am excited to live in an exact replica of 2022 earth for example every atom in every simulated persons brain is exactly the same etc. Of course I want to then modify the perfect template of earth (mostly modifying myself) so I can live out various fantasies.
Maybe aliens have been monitoring Earth for millions of years and have recordings of every significant event.
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When TikTok videos emerged in 2021 that seemed to show “Tom Cruise” making a coin disappear and enjoying a lollipop, the account name was the only obvious clue that this wasn’t the real deal. The creator of the “deeptomcruise” account on the social media platform was using “deepfake” technology to show a machine-generated version of the famous actor performing magic tricks and having a solo dance-off.

One tell for a deepfake used to be the “uncanny valley” effect, an unsettling feeling triggered by the hollow look in a synthetic person’s eyes. But increasingly convincing images are pulling viewers out of the valley and into the world of deception promulgated by deepfakes.

The startling realism has implications for malevolent uses of the technology: its potential weaponization in disinformation campaigns for political or other gain, the creation of false porn for blackmail, and any number of intricate manipulations for novel forms of abuse and fraud. Developing countermeasures to identify deepfakes has turned into an “arms race” between security sleuths on one side and cybercriminals and cyberwarfare operatives on the other.
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funkervogt wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:24 pm
Set and Meet Goals wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:01 am I just realised If Aliens with post singularity level tech exist it is likly they scan every atom of earth.

This would mean perfect FIVR would be possible as in actually living in a replica of different time periods of Earth.

Currently after the singularity I am excited to live in an exact replica of 2022 earth for example every atom in every simulated persons brain is exactly the same etc. Of course I want to then modify the perfect template of earth (mostly modifying myself) so I can live out various fantasies.
Maybe aliens have been monitoring Earth for millions of years and have recordings of every significant event.
And they probably already simulated with 99.99999% certainty what would happen if we made first contact with them at every single point in human civilization's existence including millions of years into the future.

So, having said that, the fact they haven't yet made their presence known to us is troubling. :?
To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
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raklian wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:49 pm
funkervogt wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:24 pm
Set and Meet Goals wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:01 am I just realised If Aliens with post singularity level tech exist it is likly they scan every atom of earth.

This would mean perfect FIVR would be possible as in actually living in a replica of different time periods of Earth.

Currently after the singularity I am excited to live in an exact replica of 2022 earth for example every atom in every simulated persons brain is exactly the same etc. Of course I want to then modify the perfect template of earth (mostly modifying myself) so I can live out various fantasies.
Maybe aliens have been monitoring Earth for millions of years and have recordings of every significant event.
And they probably already simulated with 99.99999% certainty what would happen if we made first contact with them at every single point in human civilization's existence including millions of years into the future.

So, having said that, the fact they haven't yet made their presence known to us is troubling. :?
Maybe they know an announcement now will mean millions of human deaths from panicked suicide.
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The U.S. Copyright Office Says an AI Can’t Copyright its Art
by Adi Robertson
February 21, 2022

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/21/2294 ... o-paradise

Introduction:
(The Verge) The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art. Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed Creativity Machine. The board found that Thaler’s AI-created image didn’t include an element of “human authorship” — a necessary standard, it said, for protection.

Creativity Machine’s work, seen above (see link above the quote box), is named “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” It’s part of a series Thaler has described as a “simulated near-death experience” in which an algorithm reprocesses pictures to create hallucinatory images and a fictional narrative about the afterlife. Crucially, the AI is supposed to do this with extremely minimal human intervention, which has proven a dealbreaker for the Copyright Office.

The board’s decision calls “the nexus between the human mind and creative expression” a vital element of copyright. As it notes, copyright law doesn’t directly outline rules for non-humans, but courts have taken a dim view of claims that animals or divine beings can take advantage of copyright protections. A 1997 decision says that a book of (supposed) divine revelations, for instance, could be protected if there was (again, supposedly) an element of human arrangement and curation. More recently, a court found that a monkey couldn’t sue for copyright infringement. “The courts have been consistent in finding that non-human expression is ineligible for copyright protection,” the board says.

This doesn’t necessarily mean any art with an AI component is ineligible. Thaler emphasized that humans weren’t meaningfully involved because his goal was to prove that machine-created works could receive protection, not simply to stop people from infringing on the picture. (He’s unsuccessfully tried to establish that AIs can patent inventions in the US as well.) The board’s reasoning takes his explanation for granted. So if someone tried to copyright a similar work by arguing it was a product of their own creativity executed by a machine, the outcome might look different. A court could also reach an alternate conclusion on Thaler’s work if he follows his rejection with a lawsuit.

Even so, the Copyright Office is highlighting the importance of human agency in machine-produced works.
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Sigh.... I knew this day would come. I just didn't think it'd be this soon.


Goddammit, humans.
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